Both Sober Singles and Loosid are built for people who don't drink, and that is close to where the resemblance stops. Loosid grew up around a recovery-first identity: sobriety tools, community events and a US-based community, with the dating app arriving later as a separate product from the recovery app. Sober Singles takes a narrower focus, a straightforward dating platform for people who've made an alcohol-free choice, for whatever reason, with a UK-primary user base.
Which one suits you comes down to where you live, and to whether you want recovery support bundled in with the dating or kept well clear of it.
At a glance
| Dimension | Sober Singles | Loosid |
|---|---|---|
| Primary audience | Alcohol-free daters, non-drinkers, sober-curious, mindful drinkers | People in and around recovery, sobriety as a shared identity |
| UK user base | UK-primary | US-founded; no UK figures published |
| App format | Web-based, works in any mobile browser | Two separate apps: community and dating |
| Dating focus | Pure dating, no recovery overlay | Dating alongside recovery tools |
| Recovery tools | Not included | Sobriety tracker, community events, crisis hotline |
| Sober events | No | Yes, via community app |
| Global community | Growing UK-focused base | More than 100,000 downloads on each of its two Google Play apps; no audited membership figure published |
| Pricing | Free to join, browse and match; optional VIP at £6.99 a month and VIP+ at £7.99 | Free tier with premium subscription |
A different kind of sober
Loosid is built around recovery as a shared identity. Its sobriety trackers, community events and crisis hotline are useful things to have to hand for people in active recovery, and they are the features its own store listings actually describe. The dating function sits inside that larger ecosystem, built around sobriety milestones and mutual support.
The scope here is deliberately narrower. Recovery is one of several reasons someone might want alcohol-free dating. The site serves non-drinkers who never developed the habit, people who stopped quietly for health or clarity, the sober-curious who've made a sustained choice, and people who simply want a relationship where alcohol isn't at the centre. What it is not is a recovery programme, and it does not try to stand in for one.
Loosid's ecosystem offers a social and support infrastructure built around sobriety, which Sober Singles does not try to replicate. If the recovery community is where you find your people, that infrastructure is a reason to be there rather than here. For anyone who just wants to date people who share an alcohol-free life, without the recovery framework built around it, the narrower option is the one that fits.
UK users: the practical question
Loosid is clearly the larger community: it runs two Google Play listings, a recovery app and a dating app, and each shows more than 100,000 downloads. Its own store description claims it has fostered more than 155,000 sober relationships, which is self-reported rather than audited. The dating app itself sits between 3.7 and 3.8 out of 5 from roughly 530 Google Play reviews, which is the odd position of Google Play showing two slightly different figures on the same listing, and 4.4 from about 3,900 App Store ratings. What matters more for UK users is how much of that community is within a reasonable geography, and on that Loosid publishes nothing at all. What is on the record is thin, and all of it points one way. Its store listings point at American recovery resources, and neither listing mentions a UK presence. That is not proof the British pool is thin, but it is the only evidence there is, and it does not point the other way.
Against that, Sober Singles is UK-primary: smaller in global terms, and far more concentrated where UK members actually live. For arranging a coffee date rather than a transatlantic correspondence, concentration beats headline size.
Two apps vs one
Loosid splits into two products: the recovery community app and a separate dating app. They cross-reference each other and some features carry across, but they're distinct downloads. The community app is where the sobriety trackers, the treatment and meeting directories and the sober events live; the dating app is where you match and message.
There is one Sober Singles and no second download. Dating, browsing profiles and reading the blog all happen in the same place, which is simpler to set up and simpler to keep using.
Pricing
You pay nothing to download Loosid or to use it. Its App Store listing publishes ten separate in-app purchases on top, priced between $9.99 and $119.99, and does not say what any of them unlocks. Loosid itself has said publicly that liking, matching and chatting do not require a subscription, so the paid tiers look like enhancements rather than a wall across the basic product.
Sober Singles is free to join, browse and match, with optional VIP and VIP+ tiers priced openly on the pricing page. The active pool is smaller, but you can see it before you spend anything.
Who each is best for
You are dating in the UK and want to meet someone who doesn't drink, whatever put you there: recovery, health, preference, or simply never having started. What you are after is a focused dating platform rather than a recovery support ecosystem.
You are in the US, recovery is central to your identity, and you want the community side, sober events and sobriety tracking sitting alongside your dating life. It costs nothing to use, and the two download bands point to a larger community, though neither listing says where those users are.
Sources
Google Play listing for "Loosid: Sober Dating & Meetups", publisher Loosid App LLC, for the download band, the review score and the founding-date and "155,000 sober relationships" claims, both of which are Loosid's own store copy rather than an audited figure. Google Play listing for "Loosid: Sober Recovery Network", the separate community app, for the second download band and for the sobriety tracker, events and crisis-hotline features. Apple App Store listing for "Loosid Sober Dating App" for the rating count and the free-with-subscription pricing, and the separate App Store listing for "Loosid Recovery & Sober App", which is what makes the two-app description accurate. Sober Singles pricing is our own published pricing. All checked 17 August. External links are not used here because the platform save guard rejects them; the source names are given in full so they can be searched directly.
For a UK reader the answer is Sober Singles, on geography alone. For someone in the US who wants recovery support in the same place as their dating, it is Loosid.
If you're UK-based and ready to find someone who shares your alcohol-free life, join Sober Singles and start browsing.